Billy Hann
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So that should be rolled out late this year and next?
The piling of the system is starting in September of this year and then we should see full implementation within approximately a year after that.
We look at the statistics around all our network, Pat, to see what's performing well and what's not performing well.
I can't talk about any individual one today and I'd be glad to take that information off and come back to that individual.
But I do apologise to that individual and we will have a look at that.
And it's not always straightforward for us to get through various different areas.
But that type of problem happens from time to time.
And you'll certainly see it on the introduction of a new Bus Connect spying.
You'll find that certain pockets of communities, now they don't have the service that they previously had.
And they'd be quite vocal about that.
But in fairness to the National Transport Authority, they did do an awful lot of consultation on the route design network.
When it goes in, if people are having significant issues and they complain to Dublin Bus or the NTA and use their politicians, we do listen to them and we do make
And we have made changes, particularly on the back end of the last F spine, which went into November last year.
But the bus is the workhorse of the transport system pattern.
I think it's important to recognise that.
So whilst you can, in any one carriage, carry more sort of passengers than a bus can carry, you can't put a railway track into anywhere.
You can get buses that are much more accessible to estates than, let's say, a railway track would be.
We carried 165 million passengers last year.